BY THE LAKE OF SLEEPING CHILDREN: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border.

New York: Anchor Books, (1996). First edition, a paperback original. Illustrated with photographs by John Lueders-Booth. SIGNED BY URREA, the Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. A continuation of sorts of his first book, ACROSS THE WIRE, in which Urrea investigates the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 "border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists and relief workers . . . in sixteen indelible portraits" (rear cover). Fine in pictorial paperwraps.Item #55451